Custom Fab Titanium Exhaust

[xs240]

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[misfitsfreak81]

Originally Posted by screaminfast

Most people do not make downpipes in Titanium because of the amount of heat put into the dp.

you can still reap benefits from a TI downpipe though.

Originally Posted by huffandpuff00

what about a simple downpipe(s13)? already have a trust Ti-R exhaust

I have certainly considered it. Im still waiting to hear from my metal supplier. keep your fingers crossed.

Originally Posted by jspecusa

If you are making this exhaust for fun then you'll get sick of it after a few sold.

If you are making this exhaust to make profit, I suggest you make it for cars that cost over $20,000 used still.

the cost to make a ti exhaust is $450 so to sell it for profit you'll have to mark up to $900 minimum.

there are people that are good at making things, there are people who are good at doing business, hope you can do both.
good luck,

making it for something to do and give people an chance to get a quality Ti exhaust with out having to sell an organ to pay for it. I would certainly be willing to do exhausts for whatever vehicle make/model that people have. Im starting here cause I have an S14 just chillin in my garage right now while I build the motor. so I figured why not make something cool. Im not trying to make a ton of money off of this, if I can make some to help finance other parts of my build cool, if not than I guess we all loose.

sam

Originally Posted by Ofc. Dangle

Sounds like an awesome idea. I would definetly be interested as I am getting an S14 to throw my SR into soon.

I will keep everyone up to date on this as much as I can.

Mike
North Shore Performance Auto

[screaminfast]

Lots of interesting information in here. I think I might stick with stainless though because we are going to coat the entire exhaust with swaintech coating and also heatwrap it.

Originally Posted by xs240

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Cobra Evolution S

[misfitsfreak81]

Originally Posted by screaminfast

Lots of interesting information in here. I think I might stick with stainless though because we are going to coat the entire exhaust with swaintech coating and also heatwrap it.


Cobra Evolution S

In the future I will probly do some stainless as well. Im not positive but im guessing the cost to swaintech coat an entire exhaust would be more expense than its worth. they charge like $170 and up just to do a turbo manifold. dont get me wrong, the shit is sweet, I just dont know how much of a benefit doing the whole thing would be. I would totally recomend against using header wrap. youll have well over $100 into the wrap and it mostlikely will just rot away since its under the car.

Originally Posted by C-unit

Here is some suggestion, I don't know if you have consider it when you do the drawing. You can put the exhaust mount on a Clamp n clamp it around the exhaust. This way, you don't have to make the mount as precise and take some stress off the exhaust as well.

Thanks for the info. that is how I was planing on doing the hangers.

as a note to all who have expressed interest on this topic you may be happy to know that I have secured a titanium supplier that has exactly the size tubing im looking for and a pretty much unlimited supply of it. also the pricing is not all that steep and will surely come down as i order in larger quantitys. Im hoping to have start the fabbing on this in the next couple of weeks hopefully. after the first one is done and ready to go i may consider doing a group buy type sell to be sure everyone gets the best price possible. I will be sure to post more info as I have it. thanks again.

Mike

North Shore Performance Auto

[screaminfast]

Originally Posted by misfitsfreak81

In the future I will probly do some stainless as well. Im not positive but im guessing the cost to swaintech coat an entire exhaust would be more expense than its worth. they charge like $170 and up just to do a turbo manifold. dont get me wrong, the shit is sweet, I just dont know how much of a benefit doing the whole thing would be. I would totally recomend against using header wrap. youll have well over $100 into the wrap and it mostlikely will just rot away since its under the car.

Swaintech becomes fairly reasonable when you get a 50% sponsorship discount As far as heatwrap, the car is 95% race/drift and 5% occasional street trip to a meet, etc. I may not need the heat wrap and we may only coat/wrap manifold and downpipe.